Curious if anyone has any other examples to add to this list.
I just started digging into Prince’s catalog (which just finally hit Spotify), and noticed an identical-sounding flanging/phasing instrument on his 1978 song “So Blue” at 3:15 (no Youtube link available for this, but it’s on Spotify), which sounds just like the flanging/phasing instrument on The BBs’ “It’s Over Now” at 2:24.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agEYBfq4PbE Both songs were done roughly within a year of each other (although The BBs’ song was unreleased, so it wasn’t a matter of these artists influencing each other); does anyone have any idea of what this instrument is? I’m thinking a guitar with a particular pedal, probably the exact same pedal on both songs.
--------
Another example is one that I noticed awhile back and mentioned in a previous thread (that didn’t get any real responses), which I’ll share again:
Give a listen to The Church’s famous 1988 song, “Under the Milky Way”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWxJEIz7sSABetween 1:33 to 1:53, there’s a repeating “twinkling” type keyboard part that is heard during pauses between the lines of lyrics. Then give a listen to The BB’s 1989 song, “Somewhere Near Japan:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAdeXsyIvE4Repeatedly throughout the song, at 3:01, 3:18, 3:37, 3:55, 4:12, 4:31, a very, very similar-sounding keyboard part is heard. Is this the exact same type of keyboard and patch/setting? And does anyone think this is a complete coincidence, or did Terry Melcher, when producing SNJ, perhaps intentionally ape of the sound from “Under the Milky Way”?